Genetic engineering - new technology tehnogikov

Equipment for genetic experiments has become so affordable that every lover can buy everything he needs, collect the missing with his own hands - and begin experiments on the development of new life forms right at home. Actually, they are doing this, writes AP .

In the photo - Meridith Paterson from San Francisco. During the day she is a programmer, and in the evenings in her own apartment she tries to inject a luminescence gene into a bacterium from yogurt so that it reacts to the presence of melamine. Some manufacturers add this harmful substance to food.

For some reason, genetic engineering as a hobby is especially popular among specialists from the IT industry. Almost none of them have a medical education, but this does not bother anyone. Meridith and like-minded people share their experience through the Internet. They call themselves "biohackers."

Who knows, maybe sometime in such a home laboratory a universal cure for cancer, an ultra-efficient biofuel or some other substance capable of permanently changing the life of humanity will be created.